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usually are in London. And we cannot but 

 feel that, if the cholera should reach the shores 

 of England at this critical conjuncture, it will 

 find organisms most ready to receive its virus. 

 Then, indeed, if the typhic miasma come to 

 mix and blend with the choleraic miasma, all 

 living beings will have to contend with the 

 most deleterious causes of alterations in their 

 health, and we may (Grod send it be otherwise !) 

 witness one of those measureless calamities 

 which, known in former ages as the Black 

 Pestilence, decimated cattle and men indiscrimi- 

 nately, and which, when we read the sorrowful 

 accounts of it in history, make the flesh creep 

 with affright. 



, We sincerely hope that such misfortunes 

 may be spared us. But ought we to abstain 

 entirely and absolutely from consuming the 

 flesh of cattle smitten with typhus ? It is a 

 delicate question, but still we shall answer it, 

 making due allowance for every Interest con- 

 cerned. 



We conceive that all animals which are 

 smitten with the early effects of the disorder, 

 which begin to operate at the opening of its 

 econd period, that is to say, when the first 



